Thursday, February 2, 2012

A Nearly Naked Look at Wednesday's Gestures

I like the idea of honesty.

We have gesture drawing classes frequently at work, and I do my best to make it when I can because I feel like it keeps me honest and fresh in my drawing. Below you'll see almost every drawing I did on Wednesday at the most recent session.

Sometimes I like to draw big--on the newsprint or whatever--but often I'm torn, because I also like to keep my drawings bound so I can reference them later. All these drawings were done in medium sized sketchbooks with 0.5mm Uniball Roller pens (a personal favorite). The tone is a Dixon Ticonderoga Carbon Black Lumber Crayon, which I added after class. You know, for kicks.

I want to post more on sketchbooking later, so expect a post from me again soon. There will be prizes (because I love giving things away), so drop a line and say hello.

19 comments:

It's funny how fast sketching comes back to you. After eleven years of not picking up a sketchbook and pencil I finally did this last fall and I was shocked. Proportions were all wrong for the first several attempts but then it all came back into focus. SO FUN. I love it!

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